SUPPLY CHAIN ARTICLES
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How Can We Move RNA Forward In Our Therapeutics Arsenal?
RNA technologies, including mRNA therapeutics, have emerged as a promising drug modality. However, they have unique challenges. BioPhorum has dedicated a team to investigate these challenges and this Q&A shares their practical considerations for how to move this field forward.
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The Cell-Free Revolution: Breaking The Plasmid DNA Bottleneck
I was excited to be given the opportunity to sit down with Jodi Barrientos, CEO, Ribbon Bio, to learn more about the current state of the synthetic DNA space. In the following Q&A, Barrientos and I discuss some of the synthetic DNA industry’s biggest goals and the challenges that stand in the way of bringing synthetic plasmids more commonly into the mRNA development paradigm.
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What Violin Making Can Teach Us About mRNA Therapeutic Quality
Managing the mRNA supply chain and working in mRNA process development may not look anything like the work a luthier does to hew an instrument from an ancient spruce tree. But violin craftmanship actually serves as a fantastic metaphor for the challenging work the mRNA therapeutics space is tackling in sourcing and qualifying raw materials and optimizing the critical IVT reaction.
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“To Thine Own [mRNA Product] Be True:” Shakespeare's Guide To RNA GMP Principles
In the following article, I offer some of the biggest tips and tricks experts offered during a panel discussion on the challenges of navigating GMP principles in the RNA space today — with a little bit of help from Shakespeare himself.
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Cultivating A Thriving mRNA Ecosystem: Key Initiatives & Future Directions
Overall, I felt that the following initiatives/talking points were demonstrative of the types of creativity and symbiosis that we will need much more of in the near and long-term to foster a healthy and fruitful RNA ecosystem.
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Inside Alnylam's Playbook For High Volume siRNA Production
As one of the first companies to establish a chemoenzymatic ligation platform, Alnylam's Maines and Nechev are in the perfect position to espouse wisdom on the practical aspects and remaining challenges of implementing enzymatic ligation at a large scale. Here in this installment, Maines and Nechev outline what they’ve learned thus far about the science of enzymatic ligation, while also paying credence to the unknowns and existing barriers that, as a frontrunner, Alnylam will inevitably (but willingly) be tasked with facing in the future.
ARTICLES, APP NOTES, CASE STUDIES, & WHITE PAPERS
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GMP-Source is a more robust, less rigid alternative to full cGMP production that mirrors nearly all of the oversight and quality standards of full cGMP production while relaxing certain commercial standards, helping companies overcome the hurdles that can stall early development.
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Learn how optimized RNA polymerases enhance mRNA therapeutic quality and transcript integrity by increasing yield and capping efficiency while reducing double-stranded RNA impurities.
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Rapid advancements in mRNA-based therapeutic development have underscored the role of raw material quality and supply chain management in ensuring their successful production.
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Costs of poor quality (COPQ) cannot be overstated. Review the statistics that prove how costly it can be to avoid resolving quality issues in your processes and supply chain.
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We report on the use of a novel lipid nanoparticle (LNP) reagent in a validated protocol to achieve successful complex gene editing in primary T cells with high efficiency while maintaining high cell viability.
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Explore the stocking solution offered to a mid-sized CDMO in need of a high volume of safety stock inventory to support their customer portfolio growth.
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An alternative to traditional polyethylene bags is offering cell and gene therapy manufacturers a solution to contamination concerns regarding DNA or RNA fragments.